He declared global warming fake news and took a victory on that promise I think

"I have pulled out of the Paris Accords, I have saved the coal industry. Job down."

"now if only I had pulled out of Paris Accord...."

Well, the Paris Accord was definately not helping against GW.

And the US was actually putting more of an effort into it more than other countries were.

And who was keeping track?

Of all the money?

largest alterinative energy producer

Or if the countries were actually using them for their intended purposes? Do we just take their word for it?

I don't really care about them tbh, and GW alarmist hurt it worst than denyists I think.

With coal it's not just about global warming, coal power plants produce a shitload of toxic byproducts

Like, making sure some of the money didn't just... disappear?

Coal just in general has been on the way out for a while

We need more nuclear plants.

oil is heading that way too

People not happy with regulation around it? Or that people can get it cheaper overseas?

Like what caused the US coal mines to shut down in the first place?

@CreativeRealms if they were more commercially viable we would be building them

And well, if they had some low risk areas to construct them

They are powerful yes, but one mistake can screw over alot

When oil prices slowly increase they would be more appealing to investors

Not that we dont trust Nuclear, more like we dont trust people to keep it in check

Not to mention that it can be used for war as well

Nuclear reactors in the US are very safe

wind and solar are easy to setup, easy to invest in. nuke power is always on the table too

Yeah they are really safe.

That's part of their cost though

expensive to run

Less pollution though.

@ping Nuclear reactors anywhere are very safe. The only major nuclear accidents in history were flukes or design flaws that have been fixed in newer plants

That said, the second biggest disaster since cernnobyle resulted in no deaths related to radiation. At least that was the numbers of few months ago

You could argue birth defects

Some will argue that the damage to the environment is more important

pfft the environment.

It probably killed people, just not from radiation poisoning

THing is, they can claim everything on radiation as well

like random people getting birth defects. How do we know if its related to radiation

@ping The problem that caused Chernobyl was a design flaw that had already been fixed in reactors 10 years younger than it, and Fukushima's problem was the backup generators being flooded because the tsunami was larger than any recorded

But dont get me wrong, Id love nuclear power.

I'm relatively sure the problem that caused Three Mile Island was also a design flaw that had already been fixed in newer plants

And even then it still worked pretty well